The Ultimate Guide To Wedding Cakes
Ultimate Guide To Wedding Cakes Are you a simple round, buttercream cake couple, or more of the sleek, fondant-covered cake types? Maybe you like custom cakes, unusual wedding cakes, 3 tier wedding cake or even black and white wedding cakes. How about cost, what do wedding cakes even fetch for these days? Can I get a cake off-the-shelf or …
An Insider Report: How To Decode Wedding Cake Prices
By Amy Lee Johnson Why do wedding cakes cost so much? They’re made out of flour, not gold. Do you suspect you’re being gouged? Here is the quick and dirty on wedding cake prices. First off, know the lingo. Wedding cake prices are calculated by serving. Most cakes are priced from $1.50-$6.00 per serving. Do …
Fun Flavors for Your Wedding Cake
We all know that the wedding cake is the center of the reception, and one of the most photographed details of the day. So you better make it good. With cake baking majorly trending (think tv shows, cupcake shops on every block, etc.), we’re seeing a departure from the traditional chocolate and vanilla flavors to more inventive, fun …
Paint Me a Beautiful Cake
The cake. It’s the centerpiece of your entire wedding day, so it better be memorable. We’ve seen several different cake decorating trends come and go — fondant, ruffles, naked, rough iced, pies even — but one cake take we’re really loving is painting. Instead of piping or cutting out fondant designs, elaborate decorations are painted …
Weddings Are More Wonderful With Classy Couture Cakes
Some people may not want a wedding cake so beautifully crafted, it becomes too much a work of art, and guests will prefer to gaze, and be reluctant to eat and enjoy it. Then again, a bride doesn’t even need to venture into “bridezilla” territory to want to have her cake and eat it too. …
Let Them {Skip} Cake! Alternatives to Traditional Wedding Cake
Maybe cake isn’t your thing. That’s okay; it’s not a requirement. Your wedding should be true to who you are as a couple — if you’re not cake people, don’t serve cake. Here are some sweet alternatives to get you thinking, many of which take the same familiar tiered shape if you’re still looking for that …
10 Fabulous Wedding Cake Ideas for 2015
Cake Inspiration for 2015 Need some cake inspiration for your upcoming nuptials? Check out a few very-awesome ideas! 1) Amaretto Cream Wedding Cake If you like the idea of hard liquor in your wedding cake, one made with Amaretto may be exactly what you want! Created with Amaretto batter, buttercream frosting and apricot glaze, try …
27 Pretty Pink Wedding Cakes We Adore
We’re on a bit of a pink run recently here at Team Wedding with our recent pink bouquets and pink wedding trends posts. So why not go all out and share our favorite pink wedding cakes. We searched far and wife and found 27 perfectly pink wedding cakes we absolutely love. For a romantic and pretty wedding …
14 Funny Wedding Cake Topper Ideas. Yes, It Is Ok to Have Some Fun.
Funny Wedding Cake Toppers Have some laid back laughs with your wedding and get yourself a funny wedding cake topper. Many people take wedding so seriously that at the end of the day they look back and they’re nothing but exhausted and wish they could have enjoyed themselves a little more. While only small, unique wedding cake …
23 Mouthwatering Cupcake Wedding Cakes That Will Rock Your Wedding World
At Team Wedding we have never met a person who doesn’t love cupcakes. There’s something so nostalgic and childlike about unwrapping a cupcake. Maybe that’s why people both love wedding cupcakes – they are fun and familiar. It is no wonder then that a popular recent trend that continues to grow in popularity is wedding cupcakes. …
Simple Doesn’t Mean Boring. These Elegant Wedding Cakes Prove Simple Can Be Absolutely Stunning.
The cake is the crown jewel of any wedding reception. At Team Wedding, there is something about understated elegance that we absolutely adore. While we love fun and whimsical wedding cakes, gold cakes and amazing wedding cake designs, there is something about simple and elegant wedding cakes that we feel brings the focus back to the reason everybody has gathered, to celebrate two people …
Dressed in White: The Wedding Cake
Pure and simple. Regal and sophisticated. White is a quintessential wedding day shade. And when it comes to the wedding cake, it must be gorgeous but it mustn’t be full of color and festivity. Instead, you can create a memorable moment (and bite) with the most subtle color on the color wheel. Let’s take a …
Golden Wedding Cakes Roundup | Oscars Inspired Wedding Cakes
This week, we’ve decided to go wedding cake crazy and bring you lots of wedding cake inspiration. We will do a post each day on a different wedding cake idea to really get the creative juices flowing. We’re starting out with gold wedding cakes. They bring out the sparkle in any wedding and lets be …
Wedding Cakes: Fondant vs. Buttercream
The world of cake icings is complex and varied, but there are two types of icing that you’ll hear most commonly: fondant and buttercream. What are they, how are they different, and when should you choose one over the other? When you see a cake icing that is unbelievably smooth, it is most likely fondant. …
Amazing Wedding Cakes Wednesday. Our Roundup of Beautiful Wedding Cakes For Your Inspiration.
Wedding Cakes are the grand finale to a reception – so shouldn’t they be amazing and beautiful? We think so, which is why wedding cake week continues in full force as Team Wedding scours the internet for amazing wedding cakes that will inspire brides no matter what your wedding theme. We rounded up some of the …
13 Perfectly Sweet Heart Shaped Wedding Cakes
Why not be a little different with your wedding and have a heart shaped wedding cake. Everybody expects a round, rectangle or square cake shape, so take the chance and make the leap to something more fun. The great news is that there is lots of inspiration and a heart shaped wedding cake also …
The Best Wedding Cake Recipes Ever!!!
Okay, you asked for it. We asked our readers and they wanted to know whether we could track down the best wedding cake recipes. We search far and wide in internet world and managed to select not just one, but several awesome wedding cake recipe ideas. A wedding cake is essentially just a really big layer …
Wedding Cakes Aren’t Cheap So Be Smart & Follow These Steps To Save Some Money!
Wedding cake prices are usually quoted by the slice, and the range is wide — anywhere from $1.50 to $12 a slice. The more complicated the wedding cake, the more you’ll pay. Fondant icing is generally more expensive than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded shapes, vibrant colors, and/or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you’ll …
Our Favorite Vintage Wedding Cakes | You’re Going To Love The Vintage ‘Naked’ Cake.
At Team Wedding, we’re like most of you in loving vintage weddings, spending hours on end finding Pinterest inspiration. We found a vintage wedding cake on Pinterest last week and added some serious daydreaming since then to find some amazing vintage wedding cakes for you to enjoy. Satisfy those cravings of yours with vintage wedding cake designs we’ve …
Starting Wedding Cake Week With A Bang: 11 Wedding Cake Pictures That Made Us Say WOW!
Pictures of wedding cakes are such a great way to start the day, but what if we told you that this week, Team Wedding has decided to dedicated a ton of blog posts to the getting inspired by wedding cake images from across the internet. That’s right, we’re calling it Wedding Cake Week, a whole week basically dedicated to mouth-watering …
Choosing the Wedding Cake: Do Your Homework
The wedding cake is the center of the party. Everyone looks forward to tasting it and everyone looks forward to finding out what it looks like once the reception starts. It’s a focal point of the night, so it’s imperative that you get the style right, the taste right and that it blends and fits …
How to Budget Your Wedding Day Menu
How to Budget Your Wedding Day Menu On your wedding you most likely want to splurge and spare no expense. This type of thinking could have your wedding day menu full of champagne and filet mignon, but it will also have your bank account empty. Just think about, you are paying for each guest at …
How to choose your wedding cake
We are certain that there are many among you who would like to know some secret tips on how to choose your wedding cake such as to save time and also benefit of a great sweet piece for dessert. However, there is no hidden rule to shorten the process, although if you keep some things …
When should one skip having a wedding cake topper
Do you believe that the wedding cake topper is indispensable for your cake? Or do you think that you could do without it? In these lines, we are willing to show you why it is not always necessary to accessorize your delicious dessert with something like this. So, if this is a topic that interests …
Why should I have a text wedding cake
Why should people go for text wedding cakes? Furthermore, when they pick this unique style, what should the text say? If you are interested in finding the answer to these questions, then read this article as we are about to disclose the magic, mystery and secrets of this topic. Text wedding cakes have the role …
Less is more – my wedding cake
Dear brides and grooms, what would you like to have as a wedding cake: something full of colors and details or something simple and easy to do? I guess, you would all go for the easy one, since the planning of your wedding ceremony has exhausted you. Well, you would be right; according to the …
The right wedding cake for my outdoor ceremony
The outdoor ceremony is your way of showing that you are free to love, that your marriage is blessed by nature and that you adore the relationship between man and normality, spontaneity and instinct. Anyway, we do not whish to discuss the philosophy of the outdoor ceremony, but we would like to approach a quite …
A square wedding cake at my nuptials
If you are interested in this subject, it seems that you have reached that sweet and delicious chapter of your wedding ceremony, in which you will have to find the right and the ideal wedding cake for your nuptials. Well, since we love sweets and desserts, it is obvious that we are going to help …
My wedding cake must look delicious
When it comes to wedding cakes it matters a lot the way they look. Of course that the size, the flavors and the cake toppers have a great importance, but the fact is that nothing matters more than the design. After all, your wedding cake should look delicious in order to make all your wedding …
Chocolate – the most popular wedding cake flavor
When it comes to wedding cakes, most of the people choose chocolate. It is something that is tasty, good looking and perfect for these occasions. Thus, one could understand these wedding couples for their delicious choice. First of all, chocolate reminds us of the great taste of childhood and it is certainly something that would …
How To Add Personal Flair To Your Wedding Cake
A little thought goes a long way in adding that finishing touch to your wedding cake – and a wedding cake topper can be the crowing touch to the much-anticipated dessert. With so many creative ideas for wedding desserts these days, the hardest part may be deciding what deliciously decadent desserts to serve guests at the …
The magic of the black and white wedding cakes
Classical weddings will never get outdated as elegance is always fashionable and there are many couples that have sophistication as the sole purpose of their wedding. Black and white have always done the trick when a traditional wedding is your aim, and, today we shall approach an important aspect of it: the magic of black …
The perfect decorations for your autumn wedding cake
Flowers have the quality of embellishing in a natural and beautiful manner every single wedding item. Therefore, we believe that you should really take advantage of their beauty and that you should not hesitate to “over use” them. Because, we really believe that you would better use some flowers instead of some other tacky decorations, …
Know how to find your wedding cake baker
I guess you though that nothing is easier than purchasing your wedding cake. Well, we believe you didn’t want to hear this from us, but in order to find the right cake you must find the right wedding cake baker. So, you would better read the following lines, because it will prove to be very …
Learn a few things about the groom’s cake
There is a lovely wedding tradition that you shouldn’t miss, that being the tradition of the groom’s cake. In case you didn’t know this ritual is dating back to the Victorian era and it is associated with the American South. Also it could be served at the wedding reception, but as a different dessert from …
Wedding Cake Topper Ideas – Let’s Get Creative!
Once upon a time, probably when your parents and grandparents married, a plastic bride and groom with a tulle arch over them was pretty much the only wedding cake topper choice any one had. Today, there are a lot of ways to give your wedding cake a crowning glory – something personal that shows your …
The wedding cakes symbols
Before sharing with you lots of examples of wedding cakes we omitted the fact that you to know a little bit of the wedding cake history. Not only is the wedding cake really important for the wedding day, but it also has its own symbols and one should know a little bit about its symbols …
Things to do before picking the wedding cake
Ladies choosing the wedding cake isn’t such an easy task if you ask us personally! Before picking the appropriate wedding cake you have to “endure” several steps and situations that ensure you make the appropriate wedding cake. Not only do you have to search pretty much, but when you go to the confectionary you have …
Wedding planning ideas
When it comes to wedding planning ideas, we don’t seem to offer you enough, because all the time you’ve going to have a thing to learn about such events. Well, we were thinking that it isn’t a bad thing to share such ideas and information with you, because human being in general has all the …
Beach wedding themes
What seems to make you recall the most when it comes to beach wedding themes? Well, we’re sincerely thinking of colors, heat, freshness and happiness. What makes you happy? A warm toned color, like red or a green tone will certainly induce a revealing feeling, we’re sure about that…. Why not share with you some …
Rock wedding themes
If some of the couples tend to use expensive wedding gowns for showing off, there are others who consider that they can be different through the wedding theme that they use. For instance, we were thinking of a rock wedding theme! Such wedding themes seem to be more and more popular in the last period …
Amazing wedding cakes
When we say amazing wedding cakes we usually refer to ones that can’t be compared to any other cakes that you’ve seen before and they can be named in this way due to their size and other accessories surrounding them. As you already know the wedding jewelry and cake toppers are elements that make wedding …
How Did We Come To Celebrate Weddings With Cake? A Brief History of Wedding Cake
Those trailblazing Romans! They gave us law, roads, aqueducts, agricultural irrigation, plumbing and more. But would you guess they also paved the way for what has evolved into show stopping wedding cakes, worthy of their own hit television shows? Before we even get to think about formal towering cakes and painterly cascading gum paste flowers, …
Couple Shares Their Tips For Hiring a Great Wedding Cake Designer
Many couples see the cake as the centerpiece of their wedding, showcasing their style while feeding their guests something delectable and memorable. So, if you’re not sure how to go about choosing a wedding cake designer, maybe you’ll benefit from the experiences we’ve had during the planning of our October wedding… Our cake was made …
Wedding Cake: Buttercream or Fondant? How DOES a Bride Choose?
When I meet with a bride and groom for a tasting and consultation, one of the first choices that comes up for a couple is whether their wedding cake should be made with buttercream or fondant. It’s helpful to know the difference, and why you might prefer/need to have one over the other. Here’s some …
Red rose wedding cakes
Red rose wedding cakes are great to be taken into account by those who arrange their entire wedding with this flower as a main theme, because there are many people who would love such a theme in their bridal day. Roses are the most representative symbols when it comes to love, romanticism and passion and …
Fountain wedding cakes
Fountain wedding cakes can be defined as those particular types of sweets which are made in such a manner as to create the impression of royalty; they are quite tall and composed of multiple segments. Of course, we have found some interesting models to share with you that we hope you will take into account, …
Beach theme wedding cakes
You have decided to set the beach as your wedding theme and you are now all wrapped up in details that will make your wedding get that long desired summer aspect. However, things are slightly more complicated than they seem the first time you give this theme a thought. We are ready to give you …
Why are custom wedding cakes so expensive?
Why on earth are wedding cakes so expensive? Well, they don’t have to be. You can get an inexpensive wedding cake, but you’re probably getting one made with different ingredients than a custom wedding cake. The cost basis for commercial production-line pre-frozen cakes and custom cakes, the latter of which is made fresh from scratch …
